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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release January 18, 2001

                  TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
                         TO THE SPEAKER OF THE
                    HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE
                        PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

January 17, 2001

Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation that was declared in Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000.

Sincerely,

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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